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Usage of the Python programming language in the CMS experiment

Author(s) -

R. Wilkinson,

B. Hegner,

Christopher Jones

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

journal of physics conference series

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21

H-Index - 85

eISSN - 1742-6596

pISSN - 1742-6588

DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/219/4/042026

Subject(s) - python (programming language) , programming language , computer science , workflow , debugging , software engineering , database

Being a highly dynamic language and allowing reliable programming with quick turnarounds, Python is a widely used programming language in CMS. Most of the tools used in workflow management and the GRID interface tools are written in this language. Also most of the tools used in the context of release management: integration builds, release building and deploying, as well as performance measurements are in Python. With an interface to the CMS data formats, rapid prototyping of analyses and debugging is an additional use case. Finally in 2008 the CMS experiment switched to using Python as its configuration language. This talk will give an overview of the general usage of Python in the CMS experiment and discuss which features of the language make it well-suited for the existing use cases

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